Pride of Britain Awards

2006 Winner PC Mark Plant PC Mark Plant caught and arrested a robber by stepping in front his car and clinging onto the roof as it swerved through rush-hour traffic at up to 50mph. PC Plant, 41, from West Midlands Police, chased two robbers who leapt into a waiting car. The driver drove straight at […]

2006 Winner Beverley De-Gale and Orin Lewis When Beverley De-Gale’s son Daniel was diagnosed with leukaemia for the second time in 1995, a bone marrow transplant was his only chance. His sister Dominique had a one in four chance of being a match – but was not. So Daniel, then aged eight, would have to […]

2006 Winner Piers Sellers Most youngsters with dreams of being spacemen forget them as they grow up but not Piers Sellers, who this year broke the British record for the longest amount of time space-walking. The astronaut, who was born in Crowborough, East Sussex, completed his second mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in […]

2006 Winner David Walliams When Little Britain comedian David Walliams said he was going to swim the Channel most people thought he was having a laugh. But fans saw the more serious side of the comic genius as he greased up in goose fat to swim more than 21 miles between Dover and the French […]

2006 Winner 59 Independent Commando Squadron Royal Engineers The wide-spread devastation and loss of life following the catastrophic earthquake in south Asia last year was enormous. Up to 75,000 people lost their lives; roads, water and power supplies were obliterated; and hundreds of thousands of people from Afghanistan to western Bangladesh were left homeless. Among […]

2006 Winner Abigal Witchalls The stabbing of a young pregnant mother in what has been dubbed by the police as the safest county of Britain shocked the nation. But it was Abigail Witchalls’s determination to look death in the face and fight for both her life and her family that earned her the respect and […]